Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-02
heath BY FIRE.
s.ruosed to be a Car-Clesner
~ "A Kelly Burned TO Death
"" N Yesterdays Fire.
u,rse, Egglestone's Grocery and
OBJ" LOSS of $4,000.

.out 80 ana hau oIlS uSnpeAeu
g':oa, on the houses when lamp
~ Egglestone's grocery store,
's' y Jones and Fifteenth streets, and
MINUTES the highly infammable
IS n 9.';n the houses in that quarter OF
~ we're wrapped in flames.
~ 5epsrtment responded promptly
,.rn,. and before q great while
gbs IRE streams playing on the burning
l's INIT the slight pressure through
J y. lines OF hose rendered the efforts
gfs.amen well nigh futile, and before
I w,s out some $4,000 worth
Sis rty had been destroyed.
~ Unread rapidly from Egglestone's
:: ~ 5piIdipg owned by Mrs. M. A.
W claiming on Fifteenth street, and
%5 sLoon on Jones street. 1t then
1Ds the street and took the Clark
p''.Gi = its warm embrace, then the res
''. - If Mrs. Bennett, and inside of
! w. y, minutes mad tosally destroyed and
yS' TENED ELEVEN BUILDINGS.
!. yurreu, the proprietor Of the Clark
seeing that the building was
Pug did everything in his power to save
..;on of the furniture and fixture Of the
ubich was all he had in the way of
III nossessions. He saved but little,
~ h the intense heat and the rapidity
! u 49, which the fire spread. AS soon as it
.ne evident that the desired pressure
MI coming through the mains the
..ssr engine was brought out, but by
4 time II was resdy for action but little
~ he done. There was considerable
s-nl,int Yesterday about the weak press
,n8 Fire Chief Adams and others set
sgIoTk 10 discover where the fault lay,
sstbeir conclusion was that
soyR ONE HAD BLUNDRRED.
cn fire occurs it is some ones duty
n,Ttoff the mains through which water
,Ts 70 the portion of the city not in dan
= from fire. In this case the valve
Enid have been closed which would
s,ntbe water from passing through the
- Of Main street, but this it is clEimed
T,not done, and there is strong evil
,rcs 70 show that it was not. The ele-
St1rs in the hotels on M.in and other
r,sts west, were running with good
~vu,e, and R. q. Barnes, on Main
! ID thirteenth, who tested his hydrsnt,
a, the pressure from the water
INKS was never better. The water-
5rks did well, exceedingly well, in fact
III somewhat OF marvel that they did
swell IS was done. It is not intended
expected that the water works will
v s full fire pressure through twenty
Ines Of MAINS at the same time, but il
she Intention that when needed this
rs.sure will be concentrated IN the mains
hst section OF the city in which the
hnsy be raging. II is not just the
ling to have water rushing forth from
Be hydrants st the Missouri Pa
IL, hospital, ct the residences near
Be Wesleyan College way out on
EGt Westherford street, pushing the
SntOrs with lightning speed to the top
iOuE-story buildings, when the
essuTe is needed on Jones aud Fiji
EEth, but such was the case yesterday,
aEst those who investigated the matter
81, With this state of affairs, could it
sFe been possible That the man charged
Iih the duty Of closing the valves did
III There is another thing in this co.,
scOn worthy of note, and that is that
u FIRE department. should be supplied
Eiih more hose. 1t is far better to have
4N feet Of hose too much than to fall
nolt fifty feet of what is necessary
q any one fire. Chief Adams
a;he would feel safer at all times If a |
Hn5er OF sections of hose were hanging |
lhs bell tower drying and ready for use |
niuthe same time al the carriages |
vel supplied, Had the department had |
Sufficient amount of hose yesterday the
ltnen could have run q line from Joseph |
4 Browns corner, or from Jones and i
S'snteenth street plug, and obtained |
Nas Of the pressure wasted in the larger
inns These things are for the Council |
. investigate. However, the pres
HA was not where 1t was |
laied and the fire rsged. |
VILE Mr.. Egglestone and George Corn
~ we're working like Trt jans to save
ssas if0m the grocery store q keg OF
r'aef exploded, and both men were
s1sRnst severely but not seriously
ONLY SOME BONES.
AwsS whispered about q short time at.
q 4 9e lodging house of Mrs. Moore took
y asI q man had been burned to death.
S''M oystanders alleged that they had
,.1, man struggling to get out OF the
81 Y, and the facts showed that
:, '+aet they saw this or not a
= ~ nad been burned to death
:. 50 intense had been the heat
~. ~ that could be found of the
- -,'s'unate was little heap of bones
= r. Mne Shared flesh. Coroner Smith
ssAlOuned and the remains were taken
s~ge oy him. At the time 1t seemed
T. sssSsole to discover who the dead man
- Uut later it was learned that a car
es Sea named Kelly, who is known by 9
/ 'et Of Fort Worth people, had come
N, ,Wuglng house last night in q par
~ "a I'Oxlcsted condition, and it is al
n, 4 not quite s certainty that T. D
~ was the victim of the fire. It is
2 TF, 81 mat he was sleeping heavily,
ia we" .s awakened by the fire, was SO
sso. 'us. ne found it impossible to
sSS S There was a rumor that q little
!, m rsa Also been burned to death, but
S.st be m stake.
4, :. adams says the Peter Smith Com.
s,S anu their foreman, Frank Kaiser,
hi ss oS deserving of praise for the
b S Sas 0ut the whole department, he
,s.,s S sulAed nobly. He himself felt very
.lfOas uraged at the fact that so many
!, G,Ss asd burned, but no one attaches
4e 70 him in any way whatever.
hs,., THE LOSSES.
,as,ss = Wide divergence of opinion
! su 70 the amount of the loss,
&O1s lures ranging from $4,000 10